I think the chance that this patent will be applied in the 7DII is negligible, unless the 7DII will be released in 2016 or thereabouts. I'm not sure how much time usually is between filing for patents, getting them granted and using them in products, but I'm assuming it's years rather than months.

A patent application requires reduction to practice. The implementation presented need not yet be commercially viable or readily manufacturable, but must exist at the time of application. So a 2011 prototype could form the basis for a product in 2013.

I am not sure if I understood the post properly but there is no info what kind of patent is this. It could be a kind of digital post processing algorithm so It does't have to influence raw and sensor quality but jogs and noise reduction only from a digital side? Is that possible?

This patent won't frighten the competition as both Nikon and even Pentax are well ahead and already have camera sensors with no anti - aliasing filters and they apparently work.

While Canon makes the finest top of the range lenses I can't help thinking they are falling behind with their sensor technology.

Don't expect much from the 7D II somehow - except delays - perhaps even the same old sensor. Well you can't have everything![/quoteRubbish ... The 5DIII produces no moire or aliasing in video, whereas the D800 is about the same as the 5DII. Nikon is behind on this.